Vol 7 (2012)

Table of Contents

Position Papers

The Brokering Approach for Multidisciplinary Interoperability: A Position Paper
Stefano Nativi, Massimo Craglia, Jay Pearlman
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1-15

Research Articles

Semantics-Aware Indexing of Geospatial Resources Based on Multilingual Thesauri: Methodology and Preliminary Results
Cristiano Fugazza, Gianluca Luraschi
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16-37
Developing a Spatial Data Infrastructure for Archaeological and Built Heritage
Peter McKeague, Anthony Corns, Robert Shaw
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38-65
Web services for spatial data exchange, schema transformation and validation as a prototypical implementation for the LPIS Quality Assurance
Stefan Wiemann, Lars Bernard, Piotr Wojda, Pavel Milenov, Valentina Sagris, Wim Devos
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66-87
Geoportal Usability Evaluation
Xin He, Hans Persson, Anders Östman
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88-106
Shibboleth Access Management Federations as an Organisational Model for SDI
Christopher I Higgins, Michael Koutroumpas, Andreas Matheus, Andrew Seales
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107-124
A multidisciplinary research framework for analysing the spatial enablement of public sector processes
Ezra Dessers, Joep Crompvoets, Katleen Janssen, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Danny Vandenbroucke, Lieselot Vanhaverbeke, Geert Van Hootegem
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125-150
Automatic Generation of Geospatial Metadata for Web Resources
Aneta Jadwiga Florczyk, Francisco Javier López-Pellicer, Javier Nogueras-Iso, Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria
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151-172
Spatial Metadata Automation: A Key to Spatially Enabling Platform
Hamed Olfat, Mohsen Kalantari, Abbas Rajabifard, Hervé Senot, Ian Williamson
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173-195
Brave New Open Data World?
Stefan Kulk, Bastiaan van Loenen
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196-206
Seamless SDI Design by Using UML Modeling
Sheelan Sheikheslami Vaez, Abbas Rajabifard
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207-224
The Development and Interlinkage of a Drought Vocabulary in the EuroGEOSS Interoperable Catalogue Infrastructure
Miguel Ángel Latre, Barbara Hofer, Javier Lacasta, Javier Nogueras-Iso
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225-248
Increasing the Availability of Spatial Data held by Public Sector Bodies: Some Experiences and Guidelines from the OneGeology-Europe Project
Katleen Janssen, Aleksandra Kuczerawy
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249-276
Interoperable Search Mechanisms for Web 2.0 Resources
Laura Díaz, Manuela Nuñez-Redó, David González, Jose Gil, Pau Aragó, Edward Pultar, Joaquín Huerta
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277-299
Multi-Disciplinary Forest Fire Danger Assessment in Europe: The Potential to Integrate Long-Term Drought Information
Barbara Hofer, Hugo Carrão, Daniel McInerney
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300-322
A multidisciplinary Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Mediterranean to support implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Sergio Cinnirella, David March, Tim O’Higgins, Carla Murciano, Rafael Sardà, Joan Albaigés, Nicola Pirrone
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323-351
Analysis of quality metadata in the GEOSS Clearinghouse
Paula Díaz Redondo, Joan Masó, Eva Sevillano, Miquel Ninyerola, Alaitz Zabala, Ivette Serral, Xavier Pons
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352-377
Future SDI – Impulses from Geoinformatics Research and IT Trends
Laura Díaz, Albert Remke, Tomi Kauppinen, Auriol Degbelo, Theodor Foerster, Christoph Stasch, Matthes Rieke, Bastian Schaeffer, Bastian Baranski, Arne Broering, Andreas Wytzisk
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378-410
Creating a Multilingual Geospatial Thesaurus: GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas Translations for Italian, Spanish, French and Slovenian
Claudia Cialone, Kristin Stock, Barbara Medved-Cvikl, Andrej Ceglar
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411-440
Recommender-based enhancement of discovery in Geoportals
Bernhard Vockner, Mariana Belgiu, Manfred Mittlboeck
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441-463
Assessment of multi-scale drought datasets to quantify drought severity and impacts in agriculture: a case study for Slovenia
Andrej Ceglar, Barbara Medved-Cvikl, Enrique Moran-Tejeda, Sergio Vicente-Serrano, Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj
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464-487

Notes from the Field

GIS Data Interoperability in Uganda
Moses Musinguzi, Sandy Stevens Tickodri-Togboa, Gerhard Bax
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488-507
Okavango Collections: Sharing Environmental Information Resources of the Cubango-Okavango River Basin
Richard T. Cooper, Monica Morrison
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508-535